Meeting
Abstract Number: 541
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 69-year-old female with no prior past medical history who presented to the ED with complaints of shortness of breath. Chest-x-ray was found to be positive for right sided pleural effusion. A thoracentesis was performed and pleural fluid found to be exudative per Light’s criteria. Fluid cytology and cell count were within normal […]
Abstract Number: 672
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old man presented with 5 months of anasarca and recurrent chylous ascites and left chylothorax. He had symptoms of dyspnea, orthostatic hypotension, bloating, early satiety, 20-pound unintentional weight loss, anasarca, and left periorbital purpura. He was a 25 pack-year current smoker with a past medical history including type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, […]